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by tptacek
5135 days ago
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My 25 came from the same source: Second City Cop blog. They're a collection of anonymous Chicago police. The scare quotes refer to gang shootings. SCC tends strongly towards alarmism and, often, hyperbole. Your odds of getting shot in Chicago, even if you go to Woodlawn for Lem's barbeque, is extremely low. Unfortunately, your odds of getting shot if you're a kid living 24/7 in Englewood or Humboldt Park are unacceptably high. Also: lots of racist cops. Blue collar job. |
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http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2010/10/end-of-cabrini-gre...
And you must have loved this discussion of "Jared," "Brent," and their fellow Occupy bombers:
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2012/05/bombers-pussies.ht...
Extremely low? Compared to what? What it should be? What should be your odds of being shot in a major city, anyway? San Francisco is extremely safer than Englewood, and earlier this year my wife and kids still found themselves in the middle of some kind of Norteno-Sureno shootout. They didn't get hit, though! So no harm, no foul.
Alarmist, certainly. Certainly alarmist compared to your normal Chicago sources of information, which as I recall insisted that the beaches on a certain day last summer were closed due to "temperatures in the '90s:"
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2011/06/wall-of-lies-crumb...
It's a fact that I'm not a blue-collar fellow and I don't have a blue-collar job or a blue-collar family. And no, I don't think that if I were posting comments on SCC, I'd be quite as cavalier in referring to "the animal," "mutts," etc. It does get the point across, however.